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Re: [opensuse-project] Does this mean OpenSUSE will be dropping Wireshark?

From:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>

Date:
Thu, 31 May 2007 23:30:06 +0200

Message-id:
<20070531213006.GB4059@xxxxxxx>

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:20:15AM +1200, Jim Pye wrote:
> >From an announcement of Arstechnica at http://tinyurl.com/2yjqoq
>
> Does this mean OpenSUSE, SLES etc. - which I understand has a lot of
> engineering force in Germany - will have to drop products like
> Wireshark?

Wireshark is not really a intrusion helper tool.

Aircrack-NG would be more of one.

And the law is _not_ final, it has to be ratified by the "Bundesrat"
first, which the latter might not do.

And if this law conflicts with EU law it might get overturned even then.